Orson could not hold on

I was going to take him to the vet this afternoon. But he couldn't hold on. Maybe he didn't want to put me through that.

At 8:39am, after a restless night in the bed with me, he had a little coughing fit, so I held him up so he could cough. He was that weak.

I laid him back down, and he tried to lift his head to look at me. So I held up his little head, a…